TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kalkuhl, Matthias
A1  - Schwerhoff, Gregor
A1  - Waha, Katharina
T1  - Land tenure, climate and risk management
JF  - Ecological economics
N2  - We analyze to what extent climate conditions affect the prevalence of sharecropping as a form of traditional land tenure. We investigate how sharecropping tenure is related to climate risk and how it interacts with fertilizer use and livestock ownership that both influence production risk. We first develop a stylized theoretical model to illustrate the role of climate for land tenure and production. Our empirical analysis is based on more than 9000 households with considerable heterogeneity in climate conditions across several African countries. We find that farmers in areas with low precipitation are more likely to be sharecroppers. We further find evidence for risk management interaction effects as sharecropping farmers are less likely to own livestock and more likely to use fertilizer. In economies where formal kinds of insurance are unavailable, sharecropping thus functions as a form of insurance and reduces the need for potentially costly risk management strategies.
KW  - traditional land tenure
KW  - climate
KW  - risk management
KW  - agriculture
KW  - Africa
KW  - sharecropping
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106573
SN  - 0921-8009
SN  - 1873-6106
VL  - 171
PB  - Elsevier Science
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
ER  -